The social networking giant's $2 billion bet on the virtual reality pioneer is bringing into focus the real costs of becoming a mass market consumer electronics maker. Ian Sherr Contributor and Former ...

New York University professor Yann LeCun has spent the last 30 years exploring artificial intelligence, designing "deep learning" computing systems that process information in ways not unlike the ...

This week, Facebook's chief technology officer said the company's newly formed AI team has its sights set on building neural networks to learn about your personality in a new and remarkably human way.

I’m a voracious learner. In addition to reading magazines, books, blogs, tweets, and faces, I persistently look for patterns, connections, anomalies and what’s new. I tolerated school only because it ...

With the launch of a way for people to connect with each other in mentoring relationships, and to look for jobs, Facebook has over the last year or so slowly been encroaching on LinkedIn’s territory ...

Facebook today is talking for the first time about FBLearner Flow, a piece of software that manages machine learning models for employees throughout the social networking company. It's similar in some ...

In 2019, Facebook took down on average close to 2 billion fake accounts per quarter. Fraudsters use these fake accounts to spread spam, phishing links, or malware. It’s a lucrative business that can ...

When asked to head Facebook’s Applied Machine Learning group — to supercharge the world’s biggest social network with an AI makeover — Joaquin Quiñonero Candela hesitated. It was not that the ...

Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team today announced more breakthroughs, this time in the areas of self-supervised learning and semi-supervised learning for computer vision.